I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron

Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
William Glasser

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
Woodrow Wilson

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore